Organisation profile

Sustainability has many facets. Inter- and transdisciplinary research and teaching characterize the School of Sustainability. Scientists in our research projects work together in the laboratory, on the heath, in the grassland, in the classroom, with the city administration, with farmers, with non-governmental organizations, with companies, with students in the lecture hall and of course at their desks.

Furthermore, we work with regional and national political actors, e.g. ministries, as well as international organizations, e.g. UNEP, UNESCO, EU. We are part of national and international bodies, e.g. sustainability advisory boards of companies, member of the German Sustainability Award, World Biodiversity Council (IPBES), in order to contribute to social change with scientific findings.

Main research areas

Vision
Sustainability science investigates on a theoretical, conceptual and empirical level how to promote sustainable development and how to find and implement effective solutions for current social and ecological challenges. The aim is to create a more sustainable future.

Sustainability researchers are called upon to take responsibility for their research, which is anchored in existing scientific knowledge and methods and serves to make the world a better place for everyone.

Mission
We promote change towards a sustainable future by developing theories, concepts and practices of inclusive education for sustainability, research, governance and management.

We acknowledge the diversity and dynamics of values, norms and behaviour and contribute with transdisciplinary methods to ensuring that tensions and differences between different disciplines, methods, topics and standards are fruitfully taken up and used with productive compromises and further developments towards sustainable development.

Principles
The School of Sustainability is guided by the normative concepts of ecological system integrity and social and economic justice.

Ecological system integrity refers to the safeguarding of life-support systems, as well as the maintenance of the well-being of life on Earth.

With social and economic justice we strive for a world in which all people can fulfil their potential without endangering system integrity and the well-being of others.

Information about the School
The School of Sustainability includes...
... ca. 25 professors
... ca. 100 research assistants
... ca. 1000 students in Bachelor and Master courses

In various inter- and transdisciplinary projects we are constantly researching and working together on changes and solutions for current challenges.

  1. 2021
  2. Published

    Following Health Measures in the Pandemic: A Matter of Values?

    Schuster, C., 14.09.2021, In: Frontiers in Psychology. 12, 17 p., 731799.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  3. Published

    Learning to collaborate from diverse interactions in project-based sustainability courses

    Konrad, T., Wiek, A. & Barth, M., 02.09.2021, In: Sustainability. 13, 17, 15 p., 9884.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  4. Published

    Actors in transitions: narratives of roles and change in the German e-mobility transition

    Upham, P. & Gathen, L., 01.09.2021, In: Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions. 40, p. 450-460 11 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  5. Published

    Added value of convection-permitting simulations for understanding future urban humidity extremes: case studies for Berlin and its surroundings

    Langendijk, G. S., Rechid, D., Sieck, K. & Jacob, D., 01.09.2021, In: Weather and Climate Extremes. 33, 14 p., 100367.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  6. Published

    “Beyond nature and culture: relational perspectives on the Wadden Sea landscape”

    Döring, M., Walsh, C. & Egberts, L., 01.09.2021, In: Maritime Studies. 20, 3, p. 225-234 10 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsOther (editorial matter etc.)Research

  7. Published

    Biophysical variability and politico-economic singularity: Responses of livestock numbers in South Mongolian nomadic pastoralism

    Engler, J. O., Wesche, K., Kaczensky, P., Dhakal, P., Chuluunkhuyag, O. & von Wehrden, H., 01.09.2021, In: Ecological Economics. 187, 13 p., 107073.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  8. Published

    Collaborative design prototyping in transdisciplinary research: An approach to heterogeneity and unknowns

    Peukert, D. & Vilsmaier, U., 01.09.2021, In: Futures. 132, 10 p., 102808.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  9. Published
  10. Published

    Diversity matters: the influence of gender diversity on the environmental orientation of entrepreneurial ventures

    Tenner, I. & Hörisch, J., 01.09.2021, In: Journal of Business Economics. 91, 7, p. 1005-1023 19 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  11. Published

    Learning spaces in multi-stakeholder initiatives: The German Partnership for Sustainable Textiles as a platform for dialogue and learning?

    Beyers, F. & Leventon, J., 01.09.2021, In: Earth System Governance. 9, 13 p., 100113.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

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  1. Ev Kirst
  2. Norman Laws

Publications

  1. Demokratie und Technikfolgenabschätzung.
  2. Beobachtung und Reflexion als zentrales Instrument der Erziehungs- und Bildungsbegleitung in der Kindertagesstätte
  3. Denk- und Schreibraum für sprachliche Bildung: Wie die Fachbibliothek „Sprache“ Schreibprozesse von Lehramtsstudierenden durch peer-to-peer Fachberatung anregt und unterstützt
  4. Herkunftssprachen in sprachwissenschaftlichen Studiengängen und universitären Fachsprachenkursen im Erfahrungsraum Studierender
  5. Zeitgenössische Kunst und ihre Betrachter
  6. Mehr als abstrakte Werte...-Menschenrechte und politische Bildung
  7. Kinder- und Jugendliteratur im Deutschunterricht
  8. Kommentierung Art. 50-54 Charta der Grundrechte
  9. „Inklusion“ verstanden als „Umgang mit Heterogenitätsdimensionen“ in und für sozialpädagogische Bildungsgänge
  10. „Wir waren auch Flüchtlinge“
  11. Stefan Thomas, Joseph Rothmaler, Frauke Hildebrandt, Rebecca Budde & Stephanie Pigorsch: Partizipation in der Bildungsforschung
  12. Wirtschaftskriege im digitalen Zeitalter
  13. SINUS - Wissenschaft und Praxis treffen sich
  14. Do CEO incentives and characteristics influence Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and vice versa? A literature review
  15. Environmental degradation of human metabolites of cyclophosphamide leads to toxic and non-biodegradable transformation products
  16. The role of firm-level and regional human capital for the social returns to education
  17. Foreign Institutional Investors, Legal Origin, and Corporate Greenhouse Gas Emissions Disclosure
  18. Betriebsstrategien für Biogasanlagen
  19. Der Leuphana Bachelor - im Zeichen politischer Bildung für nachhaltige Entwicklung
  20. Are nascent entrepreneurs 'Jacks-of-all-trades' ?
  21. Zu fragen der abgrenzung des kapitels jesaja 55 im lichte der frühjüdischen textüberlieferung
  22. Die Kultur der 30er und 40er Jahre
  23. Das erste Buch der Könige
  24. Medien, Krieg, Geschlecht
  25. Three avenues for future research on creativity, innovation, and initiative
  26. Thailand's Sex Entertainment
  27. Von belebenden Problemen und zerstörenden Rätseln
  28. Praxistheorie
  29. Was ist nach unserer Vorstellungen guter Sportunterricht?
  30. Nachhaltigkeit und Weltbeziehung: eine resonanztheoretische Untersuchung